174. The white pigeon of Giorgio Maggiore (2)

And Palma waited for Palmina at the end of the »Calle de la Terrazera« for Palmina coming with her Gondola along the »Rio de la Pieta«.

»Oh, my saint Pigeon, my Saint Cecilia, my saint Pipa Princess Wang Chao Cun is coming with her Peony – Gondola-Chung!«.

Palmina smiled so lucky as Palma entered the Gondola. In her hands she is holding her Lute. But, Palma is a man and has his heavy body weight. So the Gondola is shaking and moving a little bit up and down in the moment he is entering the Gondola.
Palmina could feel the movement of the Gondola and her body was also shaken a little bit.
Yes, Palmina liked the moment Palma is entering her Gondola. It gives her a strong feeling that such a heavy and important man is entering her fine Gondola. It has something cosmic for a women if a man with such spiritual creative energy is entering her sphere. Palmina looks in this moment more innocent than ever. She, the innocent Lute playing angel, inspired by the spirit of saint Cecilia, which is a saint virgin. Saint Cecilia is one of the 8 saint virgins including the saint virgin Mary.
She looks very shy in this moment. Although she is knowing Palma for a very, very long time and she is trusting him, the moment of entering her Gondola has something elemental cosmic.
The movement of the Gondola is touching Palmina and she can feel his strong male energy in this moment.
The decent movement of the Gondola inspired once Palma il Giovane to compose »The Peony Gondola Song« for her.
Palma smiled in this moment and tried to give her the feeling to be secure with him.
Yes, Palma was a professional painter and artist. He never touched his models even they had been sometimes for special paintings nearly naked as he painted them – Ok, they where not naked, but »nearly« naked, sometimes.
The church didn’t like that painters in Venice are painting naked women or adult girls for their paintings.
So sometimes Palma had only to paint from a model only her beautiful legs – from an other model her face – from an other model her naked breasts. Sometimes he painted only her eyes or ears or lips or arms or hands.
But Palmina knew this painting method and she allowed him to paint sometimes her beautiful legs, or arms or hands, and so on… Often he had to combine this female impressions to a fantasy (nearly-) naked women. (Palma’s paintings of naked women are wearing always a little clothing – Michelangelo¹, who was also painter and composer was also not allowed to paint naked women and man in the famous Sistine Chapel. in Rome, Vatican State¹)
So the intrigues of the church had never a change to say anything against Palma il Giovane’s paintings of women, because he never broke rules.

Palmina had today her Venetian Lute and she hold her instrument smiling.
As Palma sat down in the Gondola and the Gondola was again quite and soft in its movement, Palmina started to play a wonderful little private concert for him.

Slowly the Gondola moved straight ahead along the rest of the »Rio de la Pieta« and after they drove under the last bridge the Gondola moved straight ahead to the island San Giorgio Maggior, called in Venetian language »San Zorzi Mazor«.

After a few minutes the Gondola is far away enough from the Promenade and no one could figure out who is sitting in this Gondola not even while the lanterns in the Gondola were shining bright.

Palmina smiled and looked into Palma’s eyes.
Palma was covered by her music and love she is radiating from her heart.

In his thoughts Palma was holding and kissing slowly and tender her talented hands and arms.
Palmina could see his thoughts and smiled shy.
Then Palma kissed the left side of her neck and kissed her under her ear, later also her ear. This he did very tender and soft – in his thoughts.

Palmina could read in his heart and smiled as if she was feeling his thoughts.

Then he kissed her left cheek in his thoughts.

»Oh, Palma I am playing on my lute…«, Palmina said to Palma in her thoughts and gave him also a kiss on his right cheek – doing this in her thoughts.

Palma could feel it and smiled very lucky.

Completely inspired by his virgin Saint Cecilia Palma started to paint a white innocent pigeon. »This white Pigeon is a symbol of you, my saint inspiration pigeon. My saint Cecilia.«, Palma said to her smiling. Palmina nodded, played wonderfully on her lute and looked at the slowly growing church on San Giorgio Maggiore.

Yes, Palma and Palmina are thinking that this slowly erecting of the church there is a symbol of their growing deeply spiritual love.

Palma knows to be in love with a saint virgin like Saint Cecilia is a big honour and a great change for his inspiration and spiritual love.
He will always respect his pure saint pigeon and the virginity of Saint Cecilia.

As they arrived the Island after this nice Gondola travel they walked at this evening around the gardens of Giudecca Island as they often are doing at the evening.
They looked at the evening stars.

Palma and Palmina are holding now their hands.
They are completely alone here and they saw the position on the horizon where the evening sun has set.

And Palma send Palmina with his toughs this music:

VIDEO²: [Violin+Viola »The white pigeon of Giorgio Maggiore in Venice – Palma il Giovane 173«] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9_bhLUG8I

(to be continued…)

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¹ Michelangelo – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

»Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, composer and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered by many the greatest artist of his lifetime, and by some the greatest artist of all time, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.«

² Claude Monet – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

»Monet traveled to the Mediterranean, where he painted landmarks, landscapes, and seascapes, including a series of paintings in Venice«

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